Welcome! Vietnam Photo Adventures strives to bring you the best guided photography tours in Saigon, the Mekong Delta and around Vietnam. Our tours give you the opportunity to capture the lesser-know areas of Vietnam and its inhabitants, and help you improve your portrait, landscape and street photography skills in a fun and friendly way.

Your guide, Arnaud Foucard, is a professional photographer based in Ho Chi Minh City with years of experience organising tours within Vietnam, and he’ll help you improve your photography skills and send you back home with fantastic shots of Vietnam and its people.

The Saigon Day-Tripper

Join Arnaud on one of his Day-trippers and explore the vibrant Saigon, full of energy and traditions, through the lense of your camera. You will discover the city’s most emblematic monuments, but also it’s less travelled back alleys and secret spots, all the while receiving feedback and advices on how to improve your shots.

We propose 4 distinct day-tripper tours, each giving you an opportunity to explore different parts of the city while developing your photographic skills.

Monday to Sunday – Morning or Afternoon

The Mekong Explorer

Most tours of the Delta stick to tried & tested tourist routes and barely scratch the surface of this stunning part of Vietnam. We go deeper and help beginners and experienced photographers alike capture the true magic of the region.

2 Days / 1 Night

Departure upon request

Embark on a superb 2-day photography tour in the heart of the Mekong Delta, taking you to our favorite floating markets and locations at the golden hour.

On the first day, we will visit the charming coconut groves of Ben Tre, followed by a photo session in a few authentic pagodas and meet with the monks. The next day, we will set out early in the morning to immerse ourselves in the heart of 2 floating markets and capture their fantastic atmosphere. We will end our trip with at brick kiln village, where workers still do their craft the ancestral way.

3 Days / 2 Night

Departure upon request

Embark on a 3-day photographic tour that will take you away from beaten paths and let you discover the traditional Mekong Delta.

Throughout this photo adventure, you will sail on some of the region’s most beautiful arroyos, ride through endless coconut groves and mesmerizing fluorescent green rice fields, visit some authentic Khmer temples and meet with the monks, witness the colorful morning activity of genuine floating markets, and will get many other great opportunities to capture the true beauty of the Mekong Delta and its people.

The Vietnam Adventurer

We propose here a selection of scheduled tours carefully elaborated by Arnaud, offering you the opportunity to discover Vietnam’s most beautiful regions at their best time periods.

Whether it be in the South, the Center or the North of the country, we will take you to places mostly off the usual tourist beaten path, always driven by the same philosophy: allowing you to meet with the local population and helping you bring back home great pictures.

9 Days / 8 Nights

22 to 30 September 2017 & 3 to 11 June 2018

This tour takes place twice a year. We hold the first tour during the season of rice-transplatation, when rice terraces fill up with water, allowing young sprouts to show off their fluorescent green colors. The second tour follows the harvesting season, when the rice fields display their golden colors.

During these two crucial periods of the rice cycle, cultivators spend their whole day working the fields, to the photographer’s delight… When we’ll be out of the rice fields, it will be to explore the various villages and markets of the region.

9 Days / 8 Nights

1 to 9 October 2017 & 11 to 19 June 2018

Closed to foreigners for a long time, the faraway province of Ha Giang remains on the sideline of traditional tourist trails. It offers a diversified palette of landscapes and a pretty mosaic of ethnic groups, barely influenced by the turmoil and development of modern life. From the spectacular rice terraces of Hoang Su Phi and its various local tribes, to the breathtaking karst landscape of Dong Van and its White Hmong populated villages, we invite you to a fabulous photographic adventure to the limits of the northern mountainous region of Vietnam.

We organize this tour twice a year, during the rice transplantation season and the harvest season, a period during which the ethnic groups spend most of their days in the fields, to the photographer’s great delight.

15 Days / 14 Nights

28 May to 11 June 2018

Vietnam, stretching over more than 1650 km from North to South, offers an incredible variety of landscapes and population: floating markets overflowing with tropical fruits in the Mekong Delta, ancient trading posts, old ruins of the last imperial capital of Vietnam, colorful ethnic markets and rice terraces… Throughout these 15 days, we will meet up close with the population and share moments of their daily lives, while enjoying each region’s cultural wealth and breathtaking sceneries.

We conduct this tour only once a year, in May. This time offers the best climate throughout the 3 regions, South, Centre and North Vietnam, with the added bonus of rice harvest in the center and rice transplanting in the northern mountains, offering animated rice field landscapes, to the photographer’s great delight.